Agile’s Leaders revealing secrets at Agile Summit Turkey 2014

The most extensive and prestigious agile event of the region, Agile Turkey Summit will host the prominent agile leaders of Turkey and the World for the second time

Founded as a non-profit organization to increase awareness on Agile software development approach Agile Turkey is hosting the World leaders of the market in Agile Turkey Summit. Speakers from Skype, Vodafone, IBM, Groupon, The Guardian, and Avea will demonstrate their successful agile processes and reveal the secrets of their success in Istanbul Dedeman Hotel on October 24th. As the first and largest agile event in Turkey and MENA Agile Turkey Summit hosted 215 attendants from 77 different companies last year. Agile Turkey Summit held to inform Turkish professionals on agile methods and establish a platform for experience sharing is sponsored by IBM, BKM, ACM, Monitise and Scrum.org.

Global success stories will be discovered

The keynote speakers of the summit are Tony Grout, Head of Agile Transformation from Skype, Author and Advisor on Leadership Transformation, Management Exorcist Niels Pflaeging and American Airlines Director of Software Development Misty Shafer Sterne. In addition, Bart Hufen, founder of BrandNewGame and gamification guru will let the audience to experience his methodology to determine undesired and desired behavior to achieve company goals in just half a day, called the GameStorm.

Trigger of the change

Another exquisite speaker of Agile Turkey Summit will be the agile leader of Monisite, Andrew Hiles. Hiles will share the tips to apply agile approach on the way to success. Other international speakers of the summit will be Founder and CEO of iGi Partners Bernard Marie Chiquet and the director of Scrum.org Gunther Verheyen and The Guardian Developer Manager Robert Rees.

Agile Approach in Turkey

As well as having the outstanding international speakers, Agile Turkey Summit 2014 will also host leaders of agile in Turkey. Vodafone Agile solutions senior manager Erhan KÃ¶seoÄŸlu will demonstrate how their IT team succeeded to deliver high quality products, faster time to market advantage and effective team performance by using Scrum. SelÃ§uk Alimdar, Head of Avea Agile Studio, will talk about Scrum as a powerful tool that can strengthen execution in any business domain including non- IT departments. Burak Uluocak from Turkiye Finans Katm Bank will be sharing how they have transformated their 250 people software development organization into over 40 Scrum teams organization.

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